Name: Reaching for the Moon
Released: 1917
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Cummings, Millard Webb, Eileen Percy, Eugene Ormonde

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Nov 18, 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Artcraft Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 12m

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown entertains delusions of grandeur although he is only a lowly clerk in a New York button factory. Completely discouraged, he takes up a philosophy that claims that one may attain any object in life by concentrating one's mind on it, but loses his job while trying to practice the philosophy on his boss. Encouraged by the fact that his late mother came from the kingdom of Vulgaria, Alexis concentrates on the subject of becoming a royal personage and falls asleep. Soon after, the minister of Vulgaria appears and states that the king is dead and Alexis must take the throne. Alexis accepts and travels to Vulgaria where he is kept busy dodging attempts made on his life by Black Boris, a pretender to the throne. While dueling for his life after insulting the homely Princess Valentina, his betrothed, Alexis falls over a cliff and awakens to discover that he has merely tumbled out of bed. Thus disabused of his fantasies, Alexis eagerly returns to his life in the button factory, proposes to Elsie Merrill, his down-to-earth sweetheart, and eventually finds happiness as a family man in a New Jersey suburb.